[PATCH] {master} regex: remove obsolete macro AM_WITH_REGEX

I will push this patch in 72 hours if there is no objection. -*-*-*- Today, practically nobody uses the GNU rx library, which, according to its own website , has been "decommissioned". Consequently, the automake-provided macro AM_WITH_REGEX is not used nor

[FYI] Various merges of maint

commit 29e8f26d6b3731a3dde85d34e8d7edca48f1e4ea Merge: a3309f0 bfc83bd Author: Stefano Lattarini AuthorDate: Sat Dec 24 11:06:28 2011 +0100 Commit: Stefano Lattarini CommitDate: Sat Dec 24 11:06:28 2011 +0100 Merge branch 'maint' into branch-1.11 * maint: gitignore: use on

[FYI] {maint} gitignore: use only one .gitignore file, in the top-level directory

* doc/.gitignore, doc/amhello/.gitignore, lib/Automake/.gitignore, lib/Automake/tests/.gitignore, tests/.gitignore: Deleted, their contents merged into ... * .gitignore: ... this top-level file. Since we are at it, improve it by anchoring files where it makes sense. --- .gitignore

[FYI] {maint} tests: one more fixlet for gettext macros requirement

* tests/gettext-macros.test (configure.in): Add calls to AC_INIT and AC_PROG_CC, to avoid a spurious failure in the later aclocal invocation. Luckily, this wart wasn't causing any spurious SKIP or FAIL, but only the redundant addition to the `-Wno-syntax' option to some aclocal invocations in the g

Re: [FYI] {maint} tests: remove redundant uses of `set -e'

> [FYI] {maint} tests: remove redundant uses of `set -e' > Opps, wrong: this patch was meant for testsuite-work, and has been indeed applied there (not to maint). Sorry for the noise, Stefano

[FYI] {maint} tests: fix handling of gettext macros requirement

The code introduced in the earlier change `v1.11-581-gb7d67d5' and aimed at automatically fetching all the .m4 files provided by gettext has proven inadequate, since it hasn't managed to truly and always get *all* the required .m4 files. For example, it has failed to fetch the file `intldir.m4' (p